About Cleodemus Malchus
Cleodemus Malchus was a writer and historian.
Cleodemus Malchus (fl. 200 BCE) was a Jewish writer of whom only a few lines survive. He connects the inhabitants of Syria and North Africa with Abraham by identifying them as descendants of three sons whom Abraham had by Keturah: Apheran (the town of Aphra), Asoureim (the Assyrians), and Iaphran (Africa). His work appears cited in a quote from Alexander Polyhistor referenced by Josephus in Antiquities of the Jews 1.239-41.
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